By Michele Andreucci for Il
Giorno
July 31, 2011
A young man was arrested on the 5th of December on board the ferry
Genoa-Tanger, while already in international waters. At that moment
Mohammed Fikri was strongly suspected to have played a role in the
disappearance of Yara Gambirasio.
According to a report from Brembate Sopra (municipality of the Italian
Bergamo province) a quick search of the 23-year-old has been
undertaken. The Moroccan bricklayer from Montebelluna (Treviso) was
arrested last December when it was considered that he was involved in
the disappearance of Yara Gambirasio, as a consequence of an incorrect
translation (he was subsequently released for lack of sufficient
evidence). The prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri coordinates the investigation
into the murder of the thirteen-year-old from Brembate Sopra who
vanished on November 26 and whose body was found on Feb. 26 in a fallow
field in Chignolo d'Isola.
Ruggery accepted the request of the 23 year old's lawyer Roberta
Barbieri in order to ask the judge for preliminary investigations
related to immigrants to delete the file (the file was deleted from
Yara's murder case). The magistrate's decision is expected in the
coming days.
The young man had worked in a building site where his scent attracted
the searching dogs in a procedure that was considered bizarre. When
Fikri was arrested, he was strongly suspected to have played a role in
the disappearance of Yara Gambirasio. The evidence against him was
based on a sentence in Arabic spoken on the telephone on December 3 and
intercepted by investigators. It was initially translated as "Forgive
me, Allah, I did not kill her."
This, apart from the fact that the 23 year-old had worked at that
particular site and that he was travelling to Morocco (where he was
going to visit his family), had led to the assumption that he was
running away. Four other expert translators, however, listened, and
retranslated the phrase to "Allah, let them respond."
The Moroccan had actually dialed a Tunisian friend who had asked for
and obtained a loan from Fikri of 2,000 euros to get married, and Fikri
wanted to get his money back.
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